Word: discreditable
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...than the accused are irrelevant. "Previously," explains Ralph Brown, a lawyer and member of the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women, "a lawyer could ask a victim how many men she had slept with in the past month, year or five years." By this questioning, he managed to discredit all of her testimony...
...School Forum set up a debate for mid-October between Shockley and Roy Innis, national director of the Congress on Racial Equality. The debate was Innis's idea; he thought he could humiliate Shockley and discredit...
...allegations drew a cascade of prompt denials from both U.S. and West German officials, who suggested, plausibly, that Capital had been the victim of a hoax concocted by right-wing intelligence agents hoping to further discredit Bonn's Social Democratic regime. Nollau pointed out several obvious errors in the purported CIA paper, and sought a court injunction to prevent Capital from printing the article. Citing "new information," the magazine promptly decided not to publish. By then, the episode had generated such a furor that Chancellor Helmut Schmidt worried aloud that West Germany might be succumbing to "spy hysteria...
...German regime that there are hidden dangers in detente. According to this reasoning, the East Germans have achieved the international recognition they want from détente, but now refuse to open their country to more contacts with the West. Thus, by embarrassing Brandt, the East Germans hope to discredit Ostpolitik in Bonn and reduce the pressure for internal change...
...Nollau caper suggests that some right-wing West Germans, with their own political reasons for wanting to discredit Brandt's successors, have decided that spy hysteria can be as useful to them as it is to the Communists...